[Python-Dev] Propose to reject PEP 336 -- Make None Callable

[Guido van Rossum]

Yes please. That one will never get past me as long as I'm alive.

(At PyCon I met one person who proposed an even more radical approach;
I think he wanted getattr(None, <anything>) to return None. But he was
certified insane. :-)

On 6/17/05, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 02:55, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> > After nine months, no support has grown beyond the original poster.  The
> > PEP did however generate some negative responses when brought-up on
> > comp.lang.python (it made some people's stomach churn).
> >
> > The PEP fails the tests of obviousness and necessity.
> 
> I agree.  The fact that None is not callable is a /feature/ IMO.  +1 for
> rejecting this PEP.
> 
> -Barry
> 
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